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Post by brutalis on Jul 31, 2018 13:45:38 GMT -5
I love buying a brand new comic at the LCS and then rolling it up and putting it in my back pocket. Just to hear the "investor's" cries of anguish in the store. There. I said it. This made me wince and laugh at the same time. Note that I said roll up and not fold. I may love to torment the investor crowd but I'm not crazy. Rolling a comic doesn't really do any damage that placing it flat under an Omnibus won't fix! And you should only ever place weasels in your trousers. Pants pockets were made to carry your comics!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 31, 2018 13:54:04 GMT -5
They're funnybooks. They're meant to be read.
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Post by brutalis on Jul 31, 2018 14:00:33 GMT -5
They're funnybooks. They're meant to be read. EXACTLY! ALL of my comics are well read and loved greatly. Some of my favorite comics have been found over the years in the $1 bins or without covers or backs or with tears and rips. The current trend of "slabbing" is ridiculous. Why would you ever seal away something to read inside plastic you can never open and close and reinsert?
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Post by rberman on Jul 31, 2018 14:08:56 GMT -5
They're funnybooks. They're meant to be read. EXACTLY! ALL of my comics are well read and loved greatly. Some of my favorite comics have been found over the years in the $1 bins or without covers or backs or with tears and rips. The current trend of "slabbing" is ridiculous. Why would you ever seal away something to read inside plastic you can never open and close and reinsert? This gets to the manifold meaning of the comic book as a cultural artifact. Is it a medium for entertainment content (words and pictures)? Is it a commodity for investment, like gold or oil futures? Is it a sentimental totem of bygone childhood? Is it a holy text preserving our culture's deepest values? Is it a cheap trial run for characters and stories that will graduate to television and film in the future? Is it a means of putting food on the table for artists and writers? Yes, it may be any or all of these, in varying proportions, to various people. That's why there's no right or wrong way to have or use a comic book.
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Post by Confessor on Jul 31, 2018 14:13:29 GMT -5
They're funnybooks. They're meant to be read. Some are meant to line the bottom of the hamster's cage.
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Post by Duragizer on Jul 31, 2018 14:30:56 GMT -5
They're funnybooks. They're meant to be read. EXACTLY! ALL of my comics are well read and loved greatly. Some of my favorite comics have been found over the years in the $1 bins or without covers or backs or with tears and rips. The current trend of "slabbing" is ridiculous. Why would you ever seal away something to read inside plastic you can never open and close and reinsert? When I was just a wee lad, I was subjected to the "keep your comics in mint condition, 'cause they'll be valuable one day" mentality. Of course, I failed to do that, 'cause I was just a kid. That left me with a defeatist attitude which eventually led me to first cannibalize*, then chuck, the majority of my comic book collection even though most of them were still readable. *I like making collages.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 31, 2018 14:35:19 GMT -5
I bought this yesterday Holes punched in and all, but I buy them to read them.
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Post by brutalis on Jul 31, 2018 14:39:51 GMT -5
EXACTLY! ALL of my comics are well read and loved greatly. Some of my favorite comics have been found over the years in the $1 bins or without covers or backs or with tears and rips. The current trend of "slabbing" is ridiculous. Why would you ever seal away something to read inside plastic you can never open and close and reinsert? When I was just a wee lad, I was subjected to the "keep your comics in mint condition, 'cause they'll be valuable one day" mentality. Of course, I failed to do that, 'cause I was just a kid. That left me with a defeatist attitude which eventually led me to first cannibalize*, then chuck, the majority of my comic book collection even though most of them were still readable. *I like making collages. Cannot begin to count up all of the comic books I cut up as a child. I used to make collages and posters with the characters i liked. Also used to make up home made Shadow boxes and also 3-D boxes with the characters cut out and glued to wood or foam making them stand out with other characters or city landscapes in the background to add depth and texture.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jul 31, 2018 14:54:01 GMT -5
Man, I didn't even do anything that creative. I just cut up a lot of my old comics, removing panels or just individual images of characters I liked. Corner boxes were a favorite. Luckily for my comics, that phase didn't last too long.
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Post by Confessor on Jul 31, 2018 15:16:04 GMT -5
I've never fetishised over condition much. If it's still readable and not scribbled all over, then it's good enough. I still recall in the pre-internet days that you were just grateful to have found a long sought after comic. You weren't gonna wring your hands because it wasn't quite Near Mint or whatever. That pre-Internet mentality has basically stayed with me.
Once I've bought a back issue, I do try to preserve it in the same condition I bought it in, by bagging and sometimes boarding. But I've never been someone who has regarded collecting comics as a money making thing. They're objects for reading, plain and simple.
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Post by Trevor on Jul 31, 2018 16:39:51 GMT -5
Piggybacking on several recent comments:
I’ve pretty much always been of the opinion that there are only two conditions, owned and not owned.
Also, any comic in better than VG condition is a crime. Read those suckers, lend them to children, leave them out and about, even my keys.
Also, I cut up my comics a lot as kid, and am not opposed to doing to again. The most prized book in my collection is a humor horror mag I made out of the gag strips in House of Secrets and Unexpected type books. It was my own Plop zero issue.
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Post by brutalis on Jul 31, 2018 16:49:41 GMT -5
A used comic book is only worth whatever you are willing to pay for it. There. I said it.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 31, 2018 17:30:34 GMT -5
A used comic book is only worth whatever you are willing to pay for it. There. I said it. I only want to pay 100 dollars for Avengers #1. But they won't let me.
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Post by beccabear67 on Jul 31, 2018 20:13:00 GMT -5
I used to cut the covers of my comics up the most as a kid and glue them onto school books and other things. Poor people 'stickers'?
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Post by comicsandwho on Jul 31, 2018 20:48:52 GMT -5
I remember when I was 6, mom helping cut the cover of 'Justice League' # 181(the issue where Green Arrow pushes past several members as he quits). I was trying to use the hero figures as...really cheap superhero 'action figures'. An experiment not repeated.
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